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by 6cd6beb 2692 days ago
They also obfuscate the real upvote/downvote numbers, purportedly to stop vote manipulation but I don't really see how it does anything but provide a mask of plausible deniability for editing the up/down figures for advertisements, subversive posts, etc.
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It ensures batters cannot tell if their account has been shadow banned.